Data infrastructure

Robots Don't Need More Compute. They Need This.

Robots Don't Need More Compute. They Need This.

Encord co-founders Eric and Ulrich discuss their $60M Series C, the company's origins before the AI hype, and their focus on building the essential data infrastructure for physical AI and robotics—the next frontier after LLMs.

Physics Gets a Vote: Nominal Cofounders on Hardware Development in an AI World

Physics Gets a Vote: Nominal Cofounders on Hardware Development in an AI World

Nominal's co-founders discuss the new age of reindustrialization and the critical need for a modern data infrastructure in hardware engineering. They explain how their platform acts as a 'GitHub for hardware data,' providing a system of record for testing that bridges the gap between simulation and reality, and serves as the essential verification layer for the future of 'Physical AI'.

Self-Driving Storage: AI Agent Automation for Data Infrastructure

Self-Driving Storage: AI Agent Automation for Data Infrastructure

Explore the concept of "self-driving storage," where AI and AIOps autonomously manage data infrastructure. Learn how mobile storage partitions, predictive analytics, and agentic AI are used to automate capacity management, workload placement, and on-demand performance optimization without human intervention.

Scaling Enterprise-Grade RAG: Lessons from Legal Frontier - Calvin Qi (Harvey), Chang She (Lance)

Scaling Enterprise-Grade RAG: Lessons from Legal Frontier - Calvin Qi (Harvey), Chang She (Lance)

A summary of the talk by Harvey and LanceDB on building a highly optimized retrieval architecture for the legal profession. It covers challenges like query complexity and data scale, the importance of evaluation, and how LanceDB's multimodal lakehouse architecture provides the necessary foundation.